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...practice Dr. Hartman applies a pellet of cotton, moistened with Hartman's Solution, to the dentine of a cavity for two minutes. Thereafter for 20 to 30 minutes, sufficient time for the dentist to drill for a filling, the tooth remains insensitive...
Explosives. Extremely dangerous are the dynamite-caps or detonators used for blasting in mines. Last year a Baltimore woman, opening the door of a furnace, was struck in the breast by a copper pellet no bigger than a pinhead, which killed her. Investigation showed that the pellet had come from a detonator, no doubt left in the coal by a miner; that such detonators not only hurl a pellet at 6,000 ft. per sec. (three times the speed of a rifle bullet) but throw hundreds of minute shreds of copper, each able to penetrate nearly a millimetre of brass...
...Saul Dushman exhibited a tiny mercury lamp, two inches long and thinner than a lead pencil, which emits a 200-candlepower glare. Its light results from vaporization of a pellet of mercury imbedded in a capillary tube. The little lamp may find use in composing rooms and photographic studios, may replace electric arcs in cinema projectors...
...large black onyx pagoda on a table in the second-floor study in a house in San Francisco last week rested a tiny object the size of a rice grain. Bishop Kenju Masuyama and two priests, their hands clasped, meditated before it, chanting softly in Japanese. The tiny pellet, they believed, was an authentic bit from the bones of Buddha,* only one in the U. S. Bishop Masuyama, head of the Buddhist Church in North America (12,000 members), got it in Siam last June from Prince Yinavara Siravadhana who took it from a Bangkok temple...
...late, great Nobel Peace Prize winning Foreign Minister (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926), should be renamed Saarlandestrasse. Since beauteous Widow Stresemann, once the "Queen Kathe" of swank Berlin night clubs, happens to be a Jewess, Admiral von Levetzow was congratulated last week on having winged two birds with one pellet...